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Security Office Hour 2024-02-29

Daniel Dilger
Consortia Security Team Member

Security Office Hour meeting minutes​

Announcements​

  • Security team approvals for most projects in scope of release 24.03 have been completed.
  • Upcoming changes for release 24.05 will focus on FOSS security tools, including
    • switch from Veracode to CodeQL for SAST,
    • switch from Gitguardian to gitleaks for secrets scanning,
    • DAST will not be part of the upcoming TRG until further notice.
  • DAST was removed from TRG due to issues with authenticated scans and SARIF report as scanning alerts in repository security section.

Open Discussions​

  • An overarching issue for tracking the tool shifts was discussed, as it is necessary for proper planning by teams.
    • Teams need to estimate efforts to adjust Github workflows
  • The PR for the new Security TRG was discussed, which includes a new requirement of remediation of findings with medium severity, but not for the 25.05 release.
    • Concerns were raised about the need for additional planned team resources for triaging these issues, and it was suggested that the TRG should be finalized and teams made aware.
  • What are best-practices for scheduling security tools Action workflows, with every PR or another frequency?
    • The TRG claims at least once, this is mandatory baseline for all.
    • Best practice is more frequently, recommendations differ per tool (e.g. secret scanning for every PR, dependency scan on a weekly basis).
    • The trigger will be on push + on pull + scheduled - frequency depends on repositories activity, so the team has to decide.
    • Best practice recommendations will be published in the sig-security repository.